Gymnast Vernaeve won the first «gold» the Olympic games in Rio

Silver medalist in the all-around Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Vernaeve won the first Ukrainian gold medal in the uneven bars at the Olympic games in 2016 in Brazil.

On Tuesday 16 August in its attempt Ukrainian showed the result 16,041 (7,100 for the complexity and 8,941 for implementation). Silver took American of Danelly Leyva (15,900), and the bronze medal – Russian David Belyavsky(15,783).

The athlete has congratulated the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

«Yes!!! Oleg Vernaeve won the gold medal! A brilliant result! Proud and congratulations to you, Oleg!», — it is spoken in the message published in the pages of the head of state in social networks.

Also my congratulations Vernaeve expressed in social networks, the Minister of sport Ihor Zhdanov and other politicians and officials.

Thus, today the «piggy Bank» the national Olympic team of Ukraine already has 1 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze. In the unofficial medal standings of the Ukrainian national team now ranks 32.

Gymnast Vernaeve won the first «gold» the Olympic games in Rio 16.08.2016